Posted - 09/23/2009 : 5:25:24 PM Lace knitters, ho boy are you in for a treat! Imagine a delicate two-ply laceweight yarn made from baby alpaca, silk, and CASHMERE.

Land O Lace is a small new Minnesota-based company that offers hand-dyed lace yarns for knitters. The Land O Lace story actually has two parts: color and yarn.

All the yarns are hand-dyed to order. The available colorways are divided into two families. First, the semisolid "Just Abouts," in which one color exists in varying saturations. Second, the "Variegated" yarns, in which a second or even third color is added to a dominant first. The variegated colors are not disharmonious or jarring. In many cases, the color changes are gentle enough to work with most lace without distracting from the pattern.

Posted - 09/25/2009 : 10:53:00 AM Just when I'm thinking I have enough laceweight for a shawl a day for a month, you go and review THIS. You are wicked, I say. Thanks for letting us know about another indie dyer. Hopefully, we'll be able to actually get our HANDS on this one.

Even better is the hint that there's a new Evelyn Clark pattern in KBOW!!! Counting the days until the October 13 release!